Math and reading scores of Canadian students continue to decline steeply, matching a global trend, according to a new study.
The state of global education was given a bleak appraisal in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which is the first study to examine the academic progress of 15-year-old students in dozens of countries during the pandemic.
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Released Tuesday, it found the average… Read More
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“Math and reading scores for 13-year-olds have hit their lowest scores in decades.” When the recent NAEP long-term trend results for 13-year-olds were published, the reactions were predictable: short pieces in the national press and apologetics in education blogs. COVID-19, we were told, was continuing to cast its long shadow. Despite nearly $200 billion in emergency federal spending on K-12 schooling, students are doing worse than a decade ago, and lower-performing students are today less capable of doing math than they were 35 years ago.… Read More
Only about one in eight students who were expected to go to college in 2020 but didn’t enroll, likely as a result of the pandemic, instead began their first semester in either fall 2021 or 2022.
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When fall 2020 college enrollment numbers after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic showed that large swaths of that year’s high school graduating classes had not been enrolled, many college administrators assumed these graduates would eventually make their way to campuses. Others worry these students might get permanently knocked off their path to higher… Read More
The Florida Department of Education (FDOE) on Monday released school grades for the 2022-23 school year.
As a part of Florida’s first-in-the-nation transition to using progress monitoring instead of traditional high stakes testing, grades for the 2022-2023 school year serve as a baseline and carry no negative consequences, according to a news release.
Using these results as a baseline, schools and districts can work toward improved performance in future years, school officials said.
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FDOE developed a new test, Florida’s Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST). Unlike end-of-year high stakes testing, FAST is a progress monitoring… Read More
